Re: why does ps |grep sometimes not return itself?

2010-06-10 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Thursday 10 June 2010 03:30:14 Pieter de Goeje wrote: On Wednesday 09 June 2010 09:34:40 Matthew Seaman wrote: On 09/06/2010 08:15:23, Eitan Adler wrote: Why do I sometimes see the grep in ps's output and sometimes not see it? When you run that pipeline the OS doesn't start both

why does ps |grep sometimes not return itself?

2010-06-09 Thread Eitan Adler
Why do I sometimes see the grep in ps's output and sometimes not see it? [ei...@alphabeta ~ ]% ps aux|grep Me eitan 96325 0.0 0.0 1856 724 5 RL+ 10:14AM 0:00.00 grep Me [ei...@alphabeta ~ ]% ps aux|grep Me [ei...@alphabeta ~ !1! ]% -- Eitan Adler

Re: why does ps |grep sometimes not return itself?

2010-06-09 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/06/2010 08:15:23, Eitan Adler wrote: Why do I sometimes see the grep in ps's output and sometimes not see it? [ei...@alphabeta ~ ]% ps aux|grep Me eitan 96325 0.0 0.0 1856 724 5 RL+ 10:14AM 0:00.00 grep Me [ei...@alphabeta ~ ]% ps

Re: why does ps |grep sometimes not return itself?

2010-06-09 Thread Pieter de Goeje
On Wednesday 09 June 2010 09:34:40 Matthew Seaman wrote: On 09/06/2010 08:15:23, Eitan Adler wrote: Why do I sometimes see the grep in ps's output and sometimes not see it? [ei...@alphabeta ~ ]% ps aux|grep Me eitan 96325 0.0 0.0 1856 724 5 RL+ 10:14AM 0:00.00 grep Me